most boring MMORPG I've played so far...

[Antyss08]

Im lvl 23, I have no motivation or anything to launch the game other that I paid for the sub.
Its bland and boring in every sense, combat, quest, maps, the way you travel and the story so far...

Playing mostly like a delviery man, bring a bottle of Oringe Juice to Swyrgeim Vesper Bay western coast of Thanalan from Ul'dah.
And there so many of quest like this, nothing but go from point a-b-a
Its just a dead brainer game, I need to switch off my brain for this game to play like a zombie or human bot.
Why this game is so stupidly boring?
Just found a video thats shares exact same feelings that I have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGy5eVXuLb0

Level 10-20 time 6h
This is the gameplay: travel a-b-a, collect leafs and deliver, kill worthless no brain mobs loop repeat. 6h or doing same thing with different npc and mobs.

• Speak with Keitha at Bentbranch Meadows.
  
• Speak with Roseline.
  
• Slay 4 Qiqirn Scramblers.
  
• Report to Roseline at the Matron's Lethe.
  
• Remove blue trumpets.
  
• Report to Theodore at the Matron's Lethe.
  
• Speak with Roseline.
  
• Search for signs of the shadowy figure.
  
• Deliver the leather bag to Roseline.
  
• Show Roseline's message to Elmar.
  
• Show Roseline's message to Bernard.
  
• Show Roseline's message to Eylgar.
  
• Search for signs of the winged beasts.
  
• Speak with Lothaire.
  
• Speak with Leonnie.
  
• Speak with Armelle at the Mirror Planks.
  
• Salvage the cargo. 0/2
  
• Deliver the cargo to Keitha at Bentbranch Meadows.
  
• Question the people of Bentbranch Meadows. 0/3
  
• Speak with Luquelot.
  
• Subdue the thief, and take back Leia's egg.
  
• Retrieve Leia's egg.
  
• Return Leia's egg to Luquelot.
  
• Speak with Luquelot.
  
• Deliver Luquelot's letter to Miounne.
  
• Deliver Mioune's letter to Bowlord Lewin.
  
• Make haste to the Guardian Tree.
  
• Defeat the Ixal.
  
• Defeat the Gargoyle.
  
• Speak with Lewin.
  
• Consult Miounne.
  
• Collect the artifact from Beatin.
  
• Deliver the wooden lockbox to Miounne.
  
• Put on the Monoa Mask and speak with Estaine.
  
• Speak with Kan-E-Senna at the Lotus Stand.
  
• Speak with Miounne.
  
• Speak with Lionnellais at the airship landing.
  
• Board the airship.
  
• Speak with the storm honor guard.
  
• Present Kan-E-Senna's missive to Zanthael at Bulwark Hall.
  
• Speak with L'nophlo at the airship landing.
  
• Board the airship.
  
• Speak with the flame honor guard.
  
• Present Kan-E-Senna's missive to Bartholomew on the Hustings Strip.
  
• Speak with Baderon at the Drowning Wench in Limsa Lominsa.
  
• Retrieve ripe corpses. 0/3
  
• Deliver the corpses to Isembard at Camp Drybone.
  
• Speak with Marques outside the Church of Saint Adama Landama.
  
• Lay the embalmed corpse at the gravesite.
  
• Bury the embalmed corpse.
  
• Report back to Marques.
  
• Speak with Sister Ourcen.
  
• Speak with Isembard at Camp Drybone.
  
• Speak with the uncombed urchin in the Golden Bazaar.
  
• Save Sister Ourcen.
  
• Report to Isembard at Camp Drybone.
  
• Speak with Thancred.
  
• Search for a clue in the Amalj'aa encampment.
  
• Show the queer leaflet to Thancred.
  
• Show the queer leaflet to Sister Ourcen.
  
• Speak with Thancred.
  
• Speak with Isembard.
  
• Speak with the locals while garbed in a weathered shepherd's tunic and a pair of weathered shepherd's slops.
  
• Speak with Thancred.
  
• Speak with Thancred while garbed in a weathered shepherd's tunic and a pair of weathered shepherd's slops.
  
• Speak with Minfilia at the Waking Sands.
  
  After I will review all the comments, I will select a few and you guys will give a feeback like agree/strongly agree/ neutral/ disagree / strongly disagree of other FFXIV veterans statements.
  For example: FFXIV is mostly solo play focus.
  -disagree
  
  New update
  Asmongold will try FF14 with NO content skip & boost, I believe he can make more than anyone else a fair opinion/criticism and an observation regarding his experience with FFXIV.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlxAseu5Vu0

[๖ۣۜGodSpeed]

When I picked up FFXIV when HW came out and I found it boring at first. Got to level 27 and stop playing. Picked it up later on during Stormblood. Played a bit further. Kept to the main story and I forgot when but kept playing for the story. Got into raiding and learning mechanics. I'm having the same type of enjoyment as I did when I played WoW for the first time back when it originally released. The quest in FFXIV you can find in other MMO's. Your ether going to deliver something, kill said mob, and always talk to said person. How ever the main scenario is mostly Talk to quest. But I'm enjoying the story of the game. Doesn't bother me at all. When I do get bored a bit I just do dungeons/raid or crafting. In my opinion FFXIV crafting is better than many others. And all they did was make it feel like a actual class/job. You use skills and ability to make better gear. High quality material and even your equipment will effect the results.

Combat is slow at low level. Around 50+ is when you really start to see it pick up with most jobs. Some Jobs later on require more brain power to use well.

Games like Eve Online, there is a curv but once you get past the curv the game really picks up.

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

honestly not gonna lie, some parts could have been streamlined better, hell even with the latest story update

If I have to leave point B to talk to someone in point C just to have to warp back to point B after less than an 2 minutes of text and 1 minute of running something is every wrong

[Rox]

While I will not deny that the leveling experience is very boring, especially in the early stages where you have so few skills, judging an MMO solely on it's low level content is foolsih. Most MMOs of this style tend to be extremely boring outside of her mid-game or end-game content.

What's more, while FFXIV is an MMO, it is still a Final Fantasy title, first and foremost, meaning the story is the primary draw. It's the main reason why so many people play it and why a lot of the high end content is totally optional.

[galacticcorgi]

Lord Doober De La Goober MXI eredeti hozzászólása:

honestly not gonna lie, some parts could have been streamlined better, hell even with the latest story update

If I have to leave point B to talk to someone in point C just to have to warp back to point B after less than an 2 minutes of text and 1 minute of running something is every wrong

Then why are you playing a quest-and-story based game?

[Caz]

If you find the game boring to the extent you do, why are you still here? Seems you're only goal is to bash the game and the people who like it. Not really the type of person we want in the FFXIV community.

[Myst?c]

realm reborn is usually the most boring for people, this was back when they were trying to fix it from the major failure it used to be, it definitely gets way better as you go

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

Anakha eredeti hozzászólása:

Lord Doober De La Goober MXI eredeti hozzászólása:

honestly not gonna lie, some parts could have been streamlined better, hell even with the latest story update

If I have to leave point B to talk to someone in point C just to have to warp back to point B after less than an 2 minutes of text and 1 minute of running something is every wrong

Then why are you playing a quest-and-story based game?

Just because I dislike certain aspects of a game doesn't mean I hate the game as a whole, it's not that black and white, I dont mind the monotony of certain parts but if I'm in map A and I have to warp to map B then run over to talk to someone as almost as long as it took to get over there just to warp back to A it feels more of an insult to my time than story purposes if anything.

[Alien Behind The Door]

The leveling up was the only good part. Once you get to max level the player base mostly cares about dress up and gold saucer.
Unless you find a friends group to do the 'savage' content (which is not hard but most this player base struggles way too much) then you'll be bored at max level. It's why after 5k hours, I gave up, because each update they make things easier, and more content for the bads and the noobs, and less for the veteran players who like a challenge.
Enjoying the leveing up though

[galacticcorgi]

Playground Lurker eredeti hozzászólása:

The leveling up was the only good part. Once you get to max level the player base mostly cares about dress up and gold saucer.
Unless you find a friends group to do the 'savage' content (which is not hard but most this player base struggles way too much) then you'll be bored at max level. It's why after 5k hours, I gave up, because each update they make things easier, and more content for the bads and the noobs, and less for the veteran players who like a challenge.
Enjoying the leveing up though

I'm sorry they're not catering to the 5% of the population you're part of.

[galacticcorgi]

Lord Doober De La Goober MXI eredeti hozzászólása:

Anakha eredeti hozzászólása:

Then why are you playing a quest-and-story based game?

Just because I dislike certain aspects of a game doesn't mean I hate the game as a whole, it's not that black and white, I dont mind the monotony of certain parts but if I'm in map A and I have to warp to map B then run over to talk to someone as almost as long as it took to get over there just to warp back to A it feels more of an insult to my time than story purposes if anything.

I'm sorry, I guess I just... welcome to JRPGs? This is standard.

[Lyuno]

In fact, the leveling is kinda boring, and lot of time u have to run to point A then B and C and then return to A at the opposite of the map. But WoW or GW2 have the same problem, it s a part of MMO playstyle.

[BigCatRob]

BrokenG3ars eredeti hozzászólása:

Genuinely curious, how do you care about the "world" and any character outside of the very small main quest selection of them, when the whole game world is extremely dead and quests outside of the main one are poorly written and bland text dumps with very basic meaingless objectives?

There are several charcters outside of the Main Scenario that actually have pretty in depth stories. Just people look at side quests and click though them. Some ARR side quests that actually have a lot of depth at a later point are:

- Edda and her crew's story, the loss of a loved one and her descent into madness thru various dungeons, which is then concluded upon in Palace of the Dead

- Before the Void Ark series in Heavensward, we are introduced to both Diabolos (Lost City of Amdapor) and Ferdiad (Amdapor Keep Hard)

- Brayflox's Longstop Hard introduces the Illuminati goblin group, which later their leader is wanting for more power and to create a paradise. Alexander Raids in Heavensward follows off this

These are a few but the world isn't empty as some see it. There is actually quite a bit of continuity if some actually read instead of clicking and skipping through text.

[Kujiza A. Okami]

this game has been fromt he start and even few months-year later still the most funniest game i've picked up and will always be my favorite.

find it funny someone being super bored with it so easily, i get it for me playing alone it can get like that a lot, but thats why you looking for people to chill with and run dungeons etc. lol for me hard to find friends to play the game with who never had this game before.

[Rox]

NightShiftFur eredeti hozzászólása:

BrokenG3ars eredeti hozzászólása:

Genuinely curious, how do you care about the "world" and any character outside of the very small main quest selection of them, when the whole game world is extremely dead and quests outside of the main one are poorly written and bland text dumps with very basic meaingless objectives?

There are several charcters outside of the Main Scenario that actually have pretty in depth stories. Just people look at side quests and click though them. Some ARR side quests that actually have a lot of depth at a later point are:

- Edda and her crew's story, the loss of a loved one and her descent into madness thru various dungeons, which is then concluded upon in Palace of the Dead

- Before the Void Ark series in Heavensward, we are introduced to both Diabolos (Lost City of Amdapor) and Ferdiad (Amdapor Keep Hard)

- Brayflox's Longstop Hard introduces the Illuminati goblin group, which later their leader is wanting for more power and to create a paradise. Alexander Raids in Heavensward follows off this

These are a few but the world isn't empty as some see it. There is actually quite a bit of continuity if some actually read instead of clicking and skipping through text.

Arenvald was also a minor NPC you could see hanging out in the Waking Sands, having been recruited right as you joined. And he ends up being a major companion in Stormblood.

[Arh]

The idea is that the beginning of the game you are nobody but a servant to the city. Those tasks might suck but its so that your character progresses with the feeling that you started from the bottom. It gets a lot better